Shi Qing heard that Zhang Chu was going to torture his brothers, and immediately softened, Shi Qing was not afraid of his own suffering, but as soon as he got older, he cared more about his relatives, the scene of Jinyiwei's torture to extract confessions flashed in Shi Qing's mind, and it was his brothers who were hurt. Shi Qing, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, couldn't bear to let them suffer these things again, so he announced his surrender before Zhang Chu could do anything to him.

"What are you doing in Ningbo? Who sent you? Zhang Chu asked questions that everyone was concerned about.

"We are here to assassinate Mr. Zhang, and we were sent by Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing." Shi Qing could only tell the truth.

"Do you still have accomplices?" Zhang Chu continued to ask.

"There is also a small team of brocade guards to support us, but they have not entered the boundaries of Ningbo, and they are all hiding in the inn outside the checkpoint." Shi Qing knew that if he didn't say it, the three brothers would also say it in the end, so they simply said something.

"Take it down and interrogate it properly, and make sure you get all the information out." Zhang Chu probably didn't ask more questions after understanding the matter, and he decided to leave the matter to a professional.

The people from the Statistics Bureau next to him came over and took Shi Qing down.

Everyone else left, only Zhang Chu sat alone in the lobby to calm his mind, he needed to think about some questions, this time the emperor directly sent assassins to assassinate him, which explained a lot of things.

First of all, the military force in the hands of the emperor is definitely not capable of coming to Ningbo to fight, and this Zhang Chu also knows. At present, almost all the mobile forces of the imperial court are exterminating the rebel army in Shanxi, and the defenders in other places have no combat capability at all due to their lax armament.

The two also show that the emperor is really anxious this time, and even uses low-end means such as assassins, seeing that Emperor Chongzhen really hates Zhang Chu to the bone.

Everyone else slashed at his head, Zhang Chu was not a person who could swallow his anger, he decided to think of a way to retaliate.

Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing turned out to be the assassination of Zhang Chu presided over by these two people. Zhang Chu thought that these two people were too unkind. They didn't take a lot of money from Zhang Chu. You are unkind and unjust, since this is the case, take these two people and let Emperor Chongzhen block his heart for a while.

Zhang Chu didn't wait too long, and the people from the Bureau of Statistics finished interrogating Shi Qing and the others, and by comparing them with each other, it could be judged that they were telling the truth.

"Send a team of people to sneak out of Ningbo Territory, and capture the small team of Jinyi guards who responded to Shi Qing and the others for me." Zhang Chu decided to give them a pot.

Thanks to the accurate information, the arrest operation went smoothly and it took no trouble to bring all the people back. When they heard that Shi Qing and the others had been arrested, and Zhang Chu was unscathed at all, they had no courage to resist, and they were all willing to cooperate with the security army and tell everything they knew.

This matter is not over, Zhang Chu immediately carried out propaganda in Ningbo with great fanfare.

The propaganda team of the security army walked the streets and alleys and went deep into the countryside to publicize the policies of the security army, and at the same time publicized that the Ming Emperor was incompetent and trusted only the eunuchs and traitors, and listened to the instigation of the great eunuch Cao Huachun and the Jinyiwei spy Luo Yangxing to send people to assassinate the loyal general Zhang Chu. Therefore, Zhang Chu decided to raise troops to clear the monarch's side, eliminate corrupt officials and corrupt officials, crack down on local tyrants and inferior gentry, and distribute the land occupied by the big landlords to the people who supported Zhang Chu.

The security forces not only carried out propaganda, but also began to recruit a large number of soldiers, preparing for war with great fanfare, and making it look like they were going to send troops.

Zhang Chu's sudden outbreak frightened the court officials in the surrounding prefectures and counties of Ningbo. In these years, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court couldn't stop the thieves at all, let alone Zhang Chu, a fierce general who even the Houjin people were afraid of, so they had to write a song to ask the court for help.

After listening to the report that Cao Huachun had sent out the assassins of Zhang Chu, Emperor Chongzhen had been waiting for the results with anxiety in his heart for the past few days. In my heart, I secretly prayed for the blessing of my ancestors, and this trip must be successful. But his ancestors, including his eloquent ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, were unable to bless him anymore. It was not the news of the successful assassination from the south, but the twists and turns of the prefectures and counties around Ningbo, in which the officials condemned Cao Huachun's assassination of the court officials, which caused Zhang Chu to be enraged, and now Zhang Chu led tens of thousands of troops to prepare for the attack on the surrounding areas every day, and these officials asked the imperial court to send reinforcements to protect the city.

Along with these memorandas arrived the reports of Zhang Chu and the Ningbo prefect to the emperor.

Zhang Chu said bitterly in the report that he was dedicated to the country and repelled the attacks of the Houjin people many times, but he did not get the reward he deserved, but he attracted the jealousy of the eunuchs and Jinyi guards, and even sent assassins to assassinate him, which shows that there must be traitors in the court. Therefore, he asked the emperor to severely punish Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing, otherwise he would send troops to Qingjun's side to arrest what he considered a traitor.

The Ningbo prefect's report was even more detailed, with not only a detailed account of the interrogation of the Assassins, but also a confession signed and drawn by the Assassins. He believed that through the interrogation, it could be concluded that Cao Huachun had ordered the assassination of the ministers of the court behind the emperor's back, which angered Zhang Chu, and for this reason, Cao Huachun, who made the idea, and Luo Yangxing, who did bad things, must be severely punished.

All of these reports were delivered through the same procedure as reporting the report, so the ministers in charge of reviewing the report knew about it before the emperor did, and spread the news.

At this moment, the pot exploded in the capital, and there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the Forbidden City.

In the imperial city, Emperor Chongzhen was stupid when he received the report, and the plan that he thought was good had failed, and then he felt this huge danger. The arrest of the assassin spread rumors that the emperor had assassinated the minister, which made Emperor Chongzhen's situation very embarrassing. The emperor couldn't control the ministers and sent people to assassinate them, which made the emperor lose face and lose his majesty. Of course, you can't admit your fault in this matter, but someone must take responsibility, so the great eunuch Cao Huachun is in danger.

The ministers outside the imperial city did not do anything, and the emperor sent the Jinyi guard out again. This time, instead of arresting the minister who committed the crime, he directly sent Jinyiwei to carry out the assassination, which is simply terrifying. One day, if the emperor sees that he is unhappy and sends someone to come like this, then how can everyone live.

The atmosphere at the court meeting the next morning was very tense, and the ministers did not even want to say the flattering words to the emperor every time they went to the court. Everyone knew in their hearts that a fierce battle with the emperor was inevitable, and even the parties in the imperial court, which had always been at odds, decided to form a united front, and Zhang Chu's rebellion was far from the ministers, but once the rules of Jinyiwei to kill people were established, then the terrifying scene of eunuchs interfering in politics would appear again. Many old people in the court still have fresh memories of the scene when Wei Zhongxian was in power, and no one wants to go back to the days of being a grandson, so they must be clear. (To be continued.) )